First Titanfall 360 footage appears online – but not from Microsoft

Titanfall – this is not an Xbox 360 screenshot, there are no Xbox 360 screenshots

After being sold the game early a few lucky Xbox 360 gamers have been posting footage of Titanfall online, and it’s looking good.

Reports emerged a few days ago that shops around the world had mistakenly started selling Titanfall on the Xbox 360 early, and now the first footage has started to appear on YouTube and Twitch.

The game’s due out tomorrow in America and this Friday in Europe, but so far there’s not been a single screenshot or video released by publisher EA or developer Titanfall. Despite the game looking perfectly good in the these fans-made videos.

The conspiracy theory is that Microsoft is embarrassed by how similar the game looks to the Xbox One version, and together with the two delays has convinced EA to de-emphasise the release of the Xbox 360 version.

Whether there’s any truth to that is unclear but what little has been said about the game does sound encouraging. The conversion is being handled by Australian developer Bluepoint Games, who have previously done good work on the Ico & Shadow Of The Colossus HD Collection.

‘Titanfall on the Xbox 360 is the true experience: all the maps, modes, pilots, titans, weapons, burn cards, you name it, found in the Xbox One and PC versions. The game looks great, sounds great, and above all it plays great’, said producer Daryl Allison.

‘There are of course some technical differences that are due to the technical limitations of the hardware – for example, the game runs above 30fps – but rest assured, the intense 6v6 wall-running, titan dropping action is all there.’

If that is true it ‘s hard to understand why EA are being so secretive about the game. Certainly we haven’t had our review copy in yet, which is unusually late this close to release.